Section 61 Earlier CrPC 60
Power, on escape, to pursue and retake
Chapter 5: Arrest of persons
(1) If a person in lawful custody escapes or is rescued, the person from whose custody he escaped or was rescued may immediately pursue and arrest him in any place in India.
(2) The provisions of section 44 shall apply to arrests under sub-section (1) although the person making any such arrest is not acting under a warrant and is not a police officer having authority to arrest.
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Act No. 46 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 56Health and safety of arrested personCrPC 55A
- 57Person arrested to be taken before Magistrate or officer in charge of police stationCrPC 56
- 58Person arrested not to be detained more than twenty-four hoursCrPC 57
- 59Police to report apprehensionsCrPC 58
- 60Discharge of person apprehendedCrPC 59
- 62Arrest to be made strictly according to SanhitaCrPC 60A